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Should you be worried about the new COVID-19 variant?
Local health officials share evidence, thoughts
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Lead microbiologist Maureen Clancy prepares to insert COVID-19 sample into a testing machine Friday, Jan. 22, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center. - photo by By Scott Rogers
Dr. Supriya Mannepalli, Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s medical director of infectious disease medicine, said she has not personally worked with an identified variant case because the health system doesn’t offer a test to determine if someone specifically has B. 1. 1. 7. However, she said this doesn’t mean she hasn’t come across a patient with the variant.